Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-11-19-Speech-5-046"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-11-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Application of Community law to the Canary Islands2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991119.3.5-046"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-19-Speech-5-0472
lpv:speaker	lp:Isidoro Sánchez García2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; ELDR (1999-07-20--2003-03-19)3 substitute; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Coalicion Canaria (1999-07-20--2003-03-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, for five centuries of European history, the Canary Islands have always enjoyed special consideration in terms of shaping their presence in the Spanish and European worlds. In fact, when the Kingdom of Spain acceded to the European Community in 1985 the door was left open for an amendment of the status of the European model for the Canary Islands. In 1991, when Regulation 1911/91 was approved, we experienced Community adaptation with regard to the application of the provisions of Community Law in the islands. At that point a transitional period of ten years was set so that the integration of the economy of the Canary Islands into the Community would not be traumatic for some local production sectors and amongst other things, a tax on production and imports, the APIM, was established with a view to protecting the integration of small basic Canary Island industries into the Community Customs Area. The said tax, which protected local industry in relation to imported goods, would be gradually dismantled between 1995 and the end of 2000. Curiously, this removal of the APIM has not had the desired effect amongst the sensitive industries in the Canary Islands and therefore the Spanish authorities, the Canarian authorities and the economic operators affected have requested that the Community authorities amend Regulation 1911/91 in order to stop the removal of the APIM until June 2000, which the European Commission appreciates. Nevertheless, some of us, as Members from the Canary Islands, as well as considering it reasonable to extend the validity of this tax in accordance with the Commission’s proposal, have requested by means of amendments that it affect the most sensitive products, all the sensitive products produced in the Canary Islands. We also request that this customs approach be applied to a new tax with a structure similar to the old APIM, with the aim of incorporating it into a package of specific measures of a fiscal nature which the Council, on the proposal of the Commission, must implement next year – as Mr Ripoll y Martínez de Bedoya and Mr Medina Ortega have just said – by means of the proposed permanent statute for the outermost regions – which include the Canary Islands – in implementation of article 299.2, which provides for differentiated treatment, as you know, with regard to the application of the provisions of the Treaty. This very week the Autonomous Parliament of the Canary Islands, during a political debate on this issue, unanimously approved an agreement which includes fiscal measures and asks Europe to provide for the establishment of a tax similar to the APIM. Congratulations to Mr Medina Ortega on his report and on his receptiveness to the amendments presented."@en1
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